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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 634852" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p><em> Can anyone identify this badly damaged belt buckle? The words on it are incomplete. The word at the top is Inkermanm. To the left of that is Alma? To the right is ?alacl? At the bottom the word is ?upatoria. The word to the left of that is ??rtc? And the word to the right of it seems to be, ahap? The face on it seems to have a moustache and a goatee</em></p><p>Two possibilities - </p><p></p><p>"Where is the Inkerman Lead?</p><p>The lead was part of a long string of leads which stretched from north of Amherst through Opossum Gully in the south and via the Inkerman Lead to Alma, seven miles (11 km) to the north. The lead followed Timor Creek on the east side"</p><p></p><p>However unless it was found in that area, it is more likely to be related to the Crimean war (1853-1856) where Alma and Inkerman related to battles (we have an Inkerman lead in Ballarat, also a suburb of Sebastopol). The Balaclava gold mine at Whroo is another name from that war,.Malakoff lead another. Here is a medal with what appears to be a similar face on it,</p><p></p><p>"?alacl?" is probably Balaclava</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1644789579_inkermann.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Face is Napoleon !!! who was allied to Britain in that war.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1644790952_inkermann.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1644790952_napoleon_lll.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 634852, member: 4386"] [i] Can anyone identify this badly damaged belt buckle? The words on it are incomplete. The word at the top is Inkermanm. To the left of that is Alma? To the right is ?alacl? At the bottom the word is ?upatoria. The word to the left of that is ??rtc? And the word to the right of it seems to be, ahap? The face on it seems to have a moustache and a goatee[/i] Two possibilities - "Where is the Inkerman Lead? The lead was part of a long string of leads which stretched from north of Amherst through Opossum Gully in the south and via the Inkerman Lead to Alma, seven miles (11 km) to the north. The lead followed Timor Creek on the east side" However unless it was found in that area, it is more likely to be related to the Crimean war (1853-1856) where Alma and Inkerman related to battles (we have an Inkerman lead in Ballarat, also a suburb of Sebastopol). The Balaclava gold mine at Whroo is another name from that war,.Malakoff lead another. Here is a medal with what appears to be a similar face on it, "?alacl?" is probably Balaclava [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1644789579_inkermann.jpg[/img] Face is Napoleon !!! who was allied to Britain in that war. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1644790952_inkermann.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1644790952_napoleon_lll.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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